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1. Talk to Me (I) (2022)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Directors: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou | Stars: Ari McCarthy, Hamish Phillips, Kit Erhart-Bruce, Sarah Brokensha
Votes: 144,635
2. Hotel Mumbai (2018)
R | 123 min | Action, Drama, History
The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.
Director: Anthony Maras | Stars: Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher
Votes: 70,970 | Gross: $9.65M
3. The Stranger (II) (2022)
TV-MA | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two men who meet on a bus strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.
Director: Thomas M. Wright | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Jada Alberts, Cormac Wright
Votes: 26,527
4. Pine Gap (2018)
TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Set in the intensely secretive world of intelligence and the enigmatic US/Australia joint defence facility in central Australia, the spy-thriller Pine Gap delves into the famously strong alliance between the two countries.
Stars: Parker Sawyers, Jacqueline McKenzie, Steve Toussaint, Tess Haubrich
Votes: 6,895
5. The Snowtown Murders (2011)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris, Bob Adriaens
Votes: 20,639 | Gross: $0.01M
6. Walkabout (1971)
GP | 100 min | Adventure, Drama
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg, John Meillon
Votes: 27,364 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Escape from Pretoria (2020)
PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Mystery
Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.
Director: Francis Annan | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter
Votes: 43,628
8. Limbo (II) (2023)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.
Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, Nicholas Hope
Votes: 1,595
9. Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into a modern and nihilistic life begins.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Syd Brisbane
Votes: 15,042
10. Beautiful Kate (2009)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
A writer reawakens his childhood trauma from the past when he returns home, at the request of his estranged sister, to grieve their father's impending death.
Director: Rachel Ward | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Sophie Lowe, Maeve Dermody, Rachel Griffiths
Votes: 4,090
11. ABBA: The Movie (1977)
G | 95 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
An incompetent radio DJ tries to get an interview with the Swedish pop group during their famous week-long 1977 tour of Australia.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog
Votes: 3,877
12. Storm Boy (2019)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Family
When Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman starts to see images from his past that he can't explain, he's forced to remember his childhood and how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival.
Director: Shawn Seet | Stars: Finn Little, Jai Courtney, Geoffrey Rush, Erik Thomson
Votes: 4,101 | Gross: $0.07M
13. 2:37 (2006)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
Director: Murali K. Thalluri | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Frank Sweet, Sam Harris, Charles Baird
Votes: 7,365
14. Animals (I) (2019)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
Best friends Laura and Tyler fellow deviants, enablers and co-dependents. Laura is getting married and their booze and drug-fuelled Thelma and Louise life is in jeopardy and finds herself suspended between the two unable to give either up.
Director: Sophie Hyde | Stars: Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Amy Molloy, Kwaku Fortune
Votes: 2,296
15. Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
Director: Jim Loach | Stars: Emily Watson, Aisling Loftus, Stuart Wolfenden, Lorraine Ashbourne
Votes: 5,906
16. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, History, Music
A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles' 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney
Votes: 13,842 | Gross: $2.93M
17. A Second Chance: Rivals! (2019)
PG | 89 min | Drama, Family, Sport
It's city girls vs country girls in the most competitive gymnastics showdown ever. Get ready to tumble in A SECOND CHANCE: RIVALS!..
Director: Clay Glen | Stars: Emily Morris, Stella Shute, Carmel Johnson, Natasha Wanganeen
Votes: 527
18. Raising the Bar (2016)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A teenager who gave up her spot in an elite U.S. gymnastics program when her family moved to Australia enters a competition to help a new friend.
Director: Clay Glen | Stars: Kelli Berglund, Lili Karamalikis, Tess Fowler, Emily Morris
Votes: 1,772
19. Operation Buffalo (2020)
52 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Maralinga, South Australia, at the height of the Cold War, at a remote army base carrying out British nuclear testing, paranoia runs rife and nuclear bombs are not the only things being put to the test.
Stars: Ewen Leslie, Jessica De Gouw, James Cromwell, Tony Martin
Votes: 891
20. Spank (1999)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
Paulie, an Italian man returns to his hometown of Adelaide, Australia after spending three years in a monastery. Upon returning home, he finds his buddies have not grown beyond where they ... See full summary »
Director: Ernie Clark | Stars: Vince Poletto, Victoria Dixon-Whittle, Lucia Mastrantone, Mario Gamma
Votes: 91
21. The Plumber (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 76 min | Horror, Thriller
A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, Robert Coleby, Candy Raymond
Votes: 2,584
22. Centrespread (1981)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The Story of a photographer's struggle in the glamorous world of nude modeling.
Director: Tony Paterson | Stars: Kylie Foster, Paul Trahair, Mark Watson, Ivor Louis
Votes: 230
23. Rabbit (2017)
TV-PG | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After a vivid dream, Maude Ashton returns to Adelaide, certain she now knows the whereabouts of her missing twin sister.
Director: Luke Shanahan | Stars: Adelaide Clemens, Alex Russell, Joe Bird, Veerle Baetens
Votes: 667
24. Going for Gold (2018)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Family, Sport
17-year-old Emma joins a high-school cheerleading team when she moves to Australia with her dad who is a former Air Force Officer.
Director: Clay Glen | Stars: Kelli Berglund, Emily Morris, Terry Rogers, Ruth Natalie Fallon
Votes: 646
25. Awoken (2019)
88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When nothing can be done for a Fatal Familial Insomnia patient at the hospital, a med student has her brother moved to a secret facility in the basement for alternative treatment. Is it demonic possession?
Director: Daniel J. Phillips | Stars: Erik Thomson, Sara West, Benson Jack Anthony, Matt Crook
Votes: 10,119
26. F*%#Ing Adelaide (2017)
Comedy, Drama
A 6 part series about three close but disparate siblings who reunite in Adelaide. But when they discover their mother is selling their childhood home, their middle class freedoms and sense ... See full summary »
Stars: Kate Box, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Brendan Maclean, Audrey Mason-Hyde
Votes: 172
27. McLeod's Daughters (1996 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Western
Following the death of her mother, Tess Silverman travels to Drover's Run, the farm where she spent the first few years of her life. Drover's is a rural cattle property in South Australia, ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Tammy Macintosh, Kris McQuade, Mercia Deane-Johns, Simone Kessell
Votes: 459
28. Playing Beatie Bow (1986)
Not Rated | 93 min | Family, Fantasy, Mystery
A discontented Sydney teenager travels back in time to 1873, whilst watching an old fashioned children's game.
Director: Donald Crombie | Stars: Imogen Annesley, Peter Phelps, Mouche Phillips, Nikki Coghill
Votes: 352
29. Money Movers (1978)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An armoured car company is the target of repeated heists. Company leadership is enforcing new measures in order to tighten security. The biggest danger of a new heist lies from within the company's own ranks.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Votes: 965
30. Black and White (2002)
99 min | Drama
Recreation of the landmark 1958 South Australian Court trial of young aboriginal Max Stuart.
Director: Craig Lahiff | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels
Votes: 880
31. In My Blood It Runs (2019)
84 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An intimate and compassionate observational documentary from the perspective of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs, Australia, struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa upbringing with a state education.
Director: Maya Newell | Stars: Carol Turner, Dujuan Turner, Megan Turner
Votes: 462
32. Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
A coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl trying to fit into both a posh private school and an ordinary public school.
Director: Cathy Randall | Stars: Danielle Catanzariti, Cassandra Jinman, Talia Monaghan, Yen Yen Stender
Votes: 1,515 | Gross: $0.01M
33. Emotion Is Dead (2023)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A teenage skateboarder suffering from a recent family tragedy comes up with a money-making scheme that embroils him in something far bigger than he ever dreamed. Only his mum and emo ex-girlfriend can save him from a terrifying fate.
Director: Pete Williams | Stars: Diing Akur, Adrian M. Barnes, Emma Clear, Lexx Cruz
34. The Pageant (2008)
52 min | Documentary
A behind the scenes look at Australia's longest running and most politically incorrect beauty contest, the Miss Nude Australia Pageant. Told from the contestants and organisers perspective.
Director: Martin Taylor | Stars: Suzie Q, Ashlee Adams, Ellashaye, Toni Star
Votes: 34
35. Innocence (2000)
R | 94 min | Drama
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Julia Blake, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom, Kenny Aernouts
Votes: 1,994 | Gross: $0.29M
36. Beep and Mort (2022– )
Adventure, Family
Beep and Mort are two best friends from different worlds learning to solve their daily dilemmas and unexpected challenges through invention, play and adventure.
Stars: Ren Williams, Mitchell Butel, Zoe Coelho, Gus Wesson
Votes: 20
37. Selkie (2000)
88 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A troubled, lonely teen gets a new lease on life when he comes upon a group of selkies, mythical people with the power to change into seals.
Director: Donald Crombie | Stars: Shimon Moore, Bryan Marshall, Celine O'Leary, Elspeth Ballantyne
Votes: 154
39. Hand Grenade (2017)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A family brought together by friendship and love. Two couples and their desire to conceive a child, but someone has a secret that will tear the family apart.
Director: Paul Dangerfield | Stars: Aaron Broomhall, Krystal Cave, Kale Brock, Melissa Martins
Votes: 15
40. The Flip Side (2018)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Australian madness via the visitors-from-hell mixed with love, lust and a bloody good shiraz.
Director: Marion Pilowsky | Stars: Eddie Izzard, Vanessa Guide, Hugh Sheridan, Tina Bursill
Votes: 210
41. Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien (1999)
90 min | Drama, Family
A young girl obsessed with watching the heavens takes a bet with the bully of the 12 year old set that their oddly acting new neighbors are not aliens from outer space. The bet is her ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: Helen Neville, Natalie Vansier, Thea Gumbert, Glenn McMillan
Votes: 171
42. Road to Perth (2021)
82 min | Drama
Following a failed marriage proposal, a devastated young man embarks on a life-affirming road trip across Australia with a woman who is on a journey of her own.
Director: Chad Peter | Stars: Tommy O'Brien, Hannah Lehmann, Rachel Scott, Ellen Grimshaw
Votes: 249
43. Forbidden Lie$ (2007)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, Drama
A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that "Forbidden Love" author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.
Director: Anna Broinowski | Stars: Norma Khouri, Malcolm Knox, Rana Husseini, Caroline Overington
Votes: 633
44. My Name is Gulpilil (2021)
101 min | Documentary, Biography
Early in 2017, Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer. His doctors estimated six months for him but David, being David, was always likely to defy the odds. And he continues to do so with probably his last great work, My Name is Gulpilil.
Director: Molly Reynolds | Stars: David Gulpilil, Sara Bailey, Mary Dhapalany, Peter Djigirr
Votes: 286
45. Marungka tjalatjunu (2022)
23 min | Documentary, Short
An Anangu Yankunytjatjara man escapes the city life to return to country for spiritual healing.
Directors: Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne | Stars: Derik Lynch, Dale Baker, Dominic Roberts, Christopher Stewart
Votes: 54
46. Kiss or Kill: Behind the Scenes/the Making of 'Kiss or Kill' (2002 Video)
6 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Bill Bennett, Matt Day, Chris Haywood, Frances O'Connor
47. Nullarbor Dreaming (1989)
45 min | Documentary
Original real life footage of the Australian Nullabor cave dive and freak cyclone that dumps 6' of rain in 25 minutes and traps 15 cave divers underground. Filled by master diver in the actual cave in. Inspired James Cameron film "Sanctum"
Stars: Nick Tate, Ernie Dingo, Ron Allum, Des Gorman
Votes: 17
48. Twin Rivers (2007)
106 min | Drama
Set in 1939 Australia, two brothers embark on a 500 mile journey on foot across New South Wales following a dream. A chance encounter with a fellow traveler changes the course of their journey and ultimately, the course of their lives.
Director: Matthew Holmes | Stars: Darren Holmes, Matthew Holmes, Joshua Jaeger, Robyn Dickinson
Votes: 138
49. Parklands (1996)
51 min | Drama
Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. His diaries hint at corruption, and she also receives hints and veiled threats which support her suspicions. ... See full summary »
Director: Kathryn Millard | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Tony Martin, Carmel Johnson, Tony Mack
Votes: 158
50. Closed for Winter (2009)
85 min | Drama
Tells the story of a woman's journey to overcome the events of the past and to find a way to move on. It is a story of dark secrets and the power of and celebration of letting go.
Director: James Bogle | Stars: Natalie Imbruglia, Daniel Frederiksen, Deborah Kennedy, Danielle Catanzariti
Votes: 370